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Bollywood Playback Singers- Shreya Ghoshal

Last year I started a new series on the blog called Bollywood Playback Singers. A playback singer is someone who records the music for films. The first singer I featured was Sunidhi Chauhan. You can see that post here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/06/bollywood-playback-singers-sunidhi.html

Today I'm featuring Shreya Ghoshal.  

Shreya was born in West Bengal and grew up in Rajasthan. She wanted to be a playback singer since she was little and had musical training from a young age. In January 1998 she released her debut studio album Bendhechhi Beena, which features covers of classic Bengali songs.

Her career received a boost when she won the TV reality show Sa Re Ga Ma aged 16 and drew the attention of the mother of Indian film maker Sanjay Leela Bhansali. This led to Shreya making her Bollywood singing debut, providing the vocals for Paro (played by Aishwarya Rai) in the hit 2002 film Devdas.

Shreya's singing credits include Jaadu Hai Nasha Hai from Jism, Yun Hi Dil Ko Agar, Dhalne Lagi Hai Raat and Deewana Dil from Inteha, Saainsein Gulne Lagi from Aetbaar, Shikdum from Dhoom, the title song from Aashiq Banaya Aapne, several songs from Om Shanti Om, Ooh La La and Twinkle from The Dirty Picture, and Chal Tera Shukriya from Sadak 2.

She also provides vocals for other Indian film industries, including Tollywood (Telugu), Kannada, Kollywood (Tamil) and Marathi. In addition, Shreya has released her own singles, her first ghazal album Humnasheen (2014) and appeared on compilation albums. 

Here are some of her songs. :)


Title song from Aashiq Banaya Aapne

Shreya provided the female vocals for the title song from Aashiq Banaya Aapne in 2004. I featured the video as part of my Emraan Hashmi Videos back in 2015: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2015/12/emraan-hashmi-songs.html

The video is now age restricted so not able to be played on embedded sites anymore,  but you can watch directly on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsNIyWF2A7w

 

Teri Yaadon Mein from The Killer

This post of Nisha Kothari and Emraan Hashmi videos features Shreya as the female vocal for the song Teri Yaadon Mein from the Killer: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2016/03/nisha-kothari-and-emraan-hashmi-videos.html

And here's a direct link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UjuVi_-dvc


Saans from Jab Tak Hai Jaan

Shreya sang Saans from Jab Tak Hai, along with Mohit Chauhan. I featured it as a Weekly Music Video in 2016: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2016/11/weekly-music-video_9.html

 

Tere Bina 

In January 2018 she released her own single Tere Bina. I shared it in my New Music for 2018- Part 2 post.

Watch the video on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dosEvcBt7c



Dola Re Dola from Devdas

One of the most popular songs from Devdas, the 2002 hit film starring Shah Rukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai (now Aishwarya Rai Bachchan) and Madhuri Dixit. In this video Shreya sings Aishwarya's vocals. The other singers are Kavita Krishnamurphy and K.K.

Actor Salman Khan appears in the ErosNow introduction! The video starts about 18 seconds in. 

Update 5/3/22: They removed the video from Eros for some reason, so here's another upload:




Ooh La La Tu Hai Meri Fantasy from The Dirty Picture

This is Ooh La La Tu Hai Meri Fantasy (Ooh La La You Are My Fantasy in English), from the 2011 film The Dirty Picture. The cast includes Vidya Balan,  Emraan Hashmi and Naseruddin Shah.

In the video Vidya's vocals are sung by Shreya and Naseruddin's by Bappi Lahiri.




Angana Morey

This is Shreya's latest single. She has teamed up with her brother Soumayadeep Ghoshal for the song Angana Morey. It's a mix of Indian classical music, electronic pop, trance, orchestral and other elements and was released on 3rd February.




Follow Shreya at these links:

Official site: http://www.shreyaghoshal.com/ 

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcL78rRNuUQ8t7Dx4CLmRqA

 Official FB: https://www.facebook.com/shreyaghoshal/


Hope you liked the post! :) Who is your favourite playback singer?

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